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Sep 18 2011

Memories of Oakdale Sanatorium

Posted byDonna HirstPosted inLectures and Discussions, Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

Kathy Fait, Libraian at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa will be speaking on Memories of Oakdale Sannatarium: Iowa’s Tuberculosis Hospital.

Thursday, September 22, 2011,  5:30-6:30,  Room 2032 at the University of Iowa Main Library.

The year was 1906.  Iowa appropriated $50,000 for a State Sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis.  Kathy Fait will share information about life at Oakdale Sanatorium and the treatments for tuberculosis before the advent of antibiotics.  These included a healthy diet, strong in milk and eggs, fresh air which meant freezing in winter and roasting in the summer, and more invasive methods like collapsing lungs.